Publisher's Description

Creating a PayPal shop to sell your products on your website was never easier. With PayPal Shop Maker you can build your online shop without the need of learning how to integrate PayPal. You can quickly and easily work with your product information directly in PayPal Shop Maker and create your PayPal-enabled shop with a built-in JavaScript Shopping Cart. Products with Add to Cart button, Buy Now button or Subscribe button can be displayed in the same storefront. The generated scripts (HTML or PHP) and database (Access/MySQL/SQLite for use with PHP) can be run on Windows or Linux servers (Access database can be used on Windows servers only). Within minutes your site will be able to accept credit card payment through PayPal. The shopping cart allows sophisticated custom shipping, tax and discount calculation. Instant Payment Notification (IPN), Payment Data Transfer (PDT) and Digital Goods Download are also supported for PHP with database. PayPal Shop Maker template is highly customizable. You can change the layout or the look and feel of the whole website by modifies the template and its CSS styles. You can also customize the layout of the product catalog pages to display your products as you want.

What's new in this version:

New Website UI with Bootstrap

Supports both desktop and mobile

Horizontal Navbar and Mobile Menu with submenus

Breadcrumbs for Categories

Thumbnails for Mobile in List Page

Supports adding your own JavaScript code to the site

Supports LESS which extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions

PayPal Shop Maker is the easiest and most flexible program I have used. The shops look professional and will enable your customers to shop with ease. The service and support is superb, just what you would expect from the producers of these programs.

You can generate a web site you can sell from using PayPal to collect your payments; it is customisable and has many features the average user won't need.

Cons

You need other programs + good computer skills to understand it. Help is slow & unclear. It has many bugs. I am sorry I got this program. Questions in help forum are edited to make it look good, does not give an honest impression which says it all.

Summary

It is not as easy to use as the makers claim. You will need other programs such as XAMPP for it to run correctly on your computer, and a variety of good computer skills to understand it. The help is slow and very basic and is written in a way that assumes you already know how to build a web site and use the program and have advanced compute skills. Often the help response comes in the form, of "read the help section" in the program, but that does not provide the answers, causing frustrations and delays. I found many bugs, some of which they fixed and admitted to, some of which they wanted to brush under the carpet. So all in all I am sorry I got this program, once you add more than a few hundred items the UI slows to an unusable speed and you need to edit and add more items through a data base. If you leave a question in the help forum, it will be edited to make the program look good, so it does not give an honest impression of the program which in my opinion sums up the company. You would be much better of with something like Zen Cart etc.

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